Privacy policy
Last updated: 30 October 2026
Sakinah is an app for Muslims looking after their hearts: prayer times, the Qurʼān, ḥadīth, remembrance, breathing, sleep sounds and a private record of how you are. It is run by Abdul Rahim, a sole trader in England ("we"). You can reach us at support@getsakinah.app.
The short version
- There is no account. Nothing you write, feel or record leaves your phone.
- We don't sell anything about you, show advertising, or use advertising IDs.
- A few things do leave your phone, each listed below with who receives it and why.
What stays on your phone
Your journal and reflections, your feelings and check-ins, your answers to the wellbeing check, your prayer record, the āyāt and ḥadīth you save, your notes and tasbīḥ counts, your place and its coordinates, your masjids, walks and footsteps, your reminders and Fajr alarm, and the look you choose.
Prayer times and the qiblah are worked out on your phone from your location; your location is not sent to us or to anyone else. Reminders and the Fajr alarm are notifications your phone schedules itself.
The pause (Sakinah+, on Android) uses usage access, only if you turn it on, to read which app comes to the front during the first minutes of each prayer, so it can pause the apps you chose; on its page it reads yesterday's time in apps and unlocks, and each app's time this week. This is read on your phone when needed and is never kept or sent. The apps you choose are kept on your phone with your other choices.
These leave your phone only when you make a copy on purpose (Settings, Export), or in your phone's own backup if your phone backs up apps (iCloud on iPhone, Google on Android). Deleting everything in Settings removes them from the phone.
What leaves your phone
Checking for a fix. Each time Sakinah opens, it asks Expo's update service (EAS Update) whether a fix is waiting. This sends your platform, the app's version and update channel, a random ID made only for updates, and your IP address. It lets us mend a broken screen without waiting for the store.
Sakinah+. Each time Sakinah opens, and when you buy, restore or change a plan, it asks RevenueCat whether you have Sakinah+. RevenueCat checks with Apple's App Store or Google Play. This sends a random ID made only for purchases, your purchase records from the store, the app's version, your platform and your IP address. No name, no email and nothing you've written. Payment itself is handled entirely by Apple or Google; we never see your card or bank details.
Reading the Qurʼān. The Qurʼān comes from Quran Foundation through our own server at getsakinah.app (run on Cloudflare). When you open a sūrah, page, footnote or tafsir that isn't on your phone yet, the app asks our server for it, which sees which passage it is and your IP address, keeps no record of the request, and asks Quran Foundation for it. Your phone keeps each copy for a week, as Quran Foundation's terms allow. The Qurʼān's typefaces come from Quran Foundation's font server, which sees your IP address. What you read, save or note stays on your phone.
Listening to a recitation. Pressing play streams the recording from Quran Foundation's audio host, which sees which recording it is and your IP address.
Finding a masjid's address. On the masjid walk, searching for an address uses your phone's own map search (Apple's on iPhone, Google's on Android), which receives what you type under Apple's or Google's own privacy terms. We receive nothing.
Help improve Sakinah, only if you say yes. It's off until you turn it on in Settings ("help improve sakinah"). With your yes, Sakinah sends PostHog, in the EU, the screens you open in order, named by their kind and never by what they hold (the Qurʼān's chapter screen, not which chapter), a few moments finished (a breath, a round of tasbīḥ, a chapter of adhkār, a sound played to its end, reminders turned on), when the app is opened or updated, a random statistics ID made on your phone, the app's version, your phone's model and system, and your IP address. Your use of prayer times, the Qurʼān, ḥadīth or dhikr is part of it, and that can say something about your faith, which is why it needs your yes. Never sent: your writing, feelings or answers, your location, what you paid, your taps, or whether you opened Find support. Turn it off in Settings at any time.
Links and support. Opening a link takes you to that site; writing to us opens your email app. Calls and texts from Find support are made by your phone; Sakinah doesn't see or keep them.
What we never do
We don't sell or share your data, run advertising, use advertising IDs, record your screen or taps, track whether you opened Find support, or send anything you've written.
Who receives data, and where
| Who | What for | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Expo (650 Industries, Inc.) | The update check | United States |
| RevenueCat, Inc. | Whether you have Sakinah+ | United States |
| Apple or Google | Purchases; map search on the walk | Their own services |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | Runs our server, which brings you the Qurʼān (no request record is kept) | Its global network |
| Quran Foundation | The Qurʼān's text, typefaces and recitations | Their own services |
| PostHog, Inc. | Help improve Sakinah, only with your yes | European Union |
Where data goes outside the UK or the European Economic Area, it is protected by the providers' own safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses.
How long it is kept
What stays on your phone is kept until you delete it or delete the app. RevenueCat keeps purchase records for as long as a subscription needs them and the law requires. Expo keeps update logs under its own retention policy. What you send with your yes is kept by PostHog only as long as it helps us improve Sakinah, and deleted when you ask.
Your rights
Under UK and EU data protection law you can ask what we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, object, or ask for a copy. We hold almost nothing ourselves; for your purchase records with RevenueCat, write to support@getsakinah.app and we'll ask for them to be deleted. If you said yes to helping improve Sakinah, Settings' "ask us to delete what's been sent" writes us an email carrying your statistics ID, and we delete what was sent with it. You can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk) or your own country's authority.
Our legal basis is legitimate interests: to provide the app, keep it working, and know whether you have Sakinah+. Helping improve Sakinah rests on your explicit consent, which you can withdraw in Settings at any time.
Children
Sakinah isn't made for children under 13. It collects nothing that would identify anyone, at any age.
Changes
If what leaves your phone changes, this page changes first, and the app tells you before anything new is sent.